The Hike Back Down Baldy Mountain

July 28th (Tuesday)

 

This morning we awoke to a different and beautiful sight.  All of the valleys were filled with a blanket of fog, but all of the mountaintops, including us, were out in the sun.  

It was a lovely morning.  I packed up inside our tent, while Jason got things organized outside and prepared our tea and breakfast.  We then enjoyed our breakfast and tea from inside our tent, which was now empty.  With the fly off of the tent we had a full view around us, and we could sit and enjoy it without being pestered by the bugs.  Once our tent was packed up we were all ready to go and we headed out.

It was not long before we were down into the trees and making our way along a similar route to which we had come up.  Quite often the terrain was so steep that I had to turn around and climb down like on a ladder using the many strong and well rooted plants as handholds.  Despite the steep and still tough going we were making excellent progress.  We were going about twice as quickly as we had on the way up.  We were eager to get back down to the lake and to have the hike over with, so we plugged along without many breaks.  Many times we commented, “I can’t believe we came up through this”, but we sure were glad that we did.  

When we reached the South Saiak River crossing we simply walked our way across.  We were close enough now to being able to take off our hiking boots so we did not care that they got wet.  

As we made our way down through the last bit of the forest, through the easiest part of the hike we noticed the many blueberries and black huckleberries and we enjoyed some as we passed by.  

Back down at the lake, the water level had dropped by about 8” and our tie off job of the boat had worked perfectly.  We relaxed for a bit and then united and headed home.  

What a fantastic trip!!!



 

 


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